Wed 09 August 2023: On Tuesday, Canadian media organizations condemned Meta’s decision to block news information on Facebook and Instagram as “anticompetitive” and sought an investigation. Bill C-18 demanded that tech companies like Meta and Google share income with Canadian news sources for news uploaded on their media platforms. Meta restricted news content in Canada […]
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Wed 09 August 2023: An Islamic funeral was conducted Tuesday in Ireland for Sinead O’Connor who died last month in London. Thousands, including Irish singers Bono and Bob Geldof, took part in the ceremony as her cortege passed through her former hometown of Bray, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the nation’s capital of Dublin. […]
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Wed 09 August 2023: The World Bank has announced it will halt new loans to Uganda over the country’s controversial anti-LGBTQ law. The Washington, DC-based lender said on Tuesday it would pause project financing pending a review of measures it introduced to protect sexual and gender minorities from discrimination and exclusion in its projects. “Uganda’s […]
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Wed 09 August 2023: PRETORIA – South Africa’s foreign affairs minister Naledi Pandor has rejected the idea that Pretoria saw the BRICS (Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grouping as being anti-West. She also reiterated the importance of Western trading partners to the country. Pandor on Monday briefed the media on the state of readiness for […]
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Tue 08 August 2023: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has crticised Moscow for its offer to supply six African nations with free grain, saying the proposal is “laughable”. “None of this is a laughing matter, but it’s laughable. What Russia was proposing is – was to get grain to a half dozen countries, about […]
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Tue 08 August 2023: In a major blow to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday disqualified PTI chief and former Prime Minister Imran Khan for five years following his conviction in the Toshakhana case last week, Dawn News reported. An Islamabad trial court on Saturday sentenced Imran — who was […]
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Tue 08 August 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his South Africa counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, discussed the recent Russia-Africa summit, the upcoming BRICS meeting, trade relations and other issues during a phone conversation on Tuesday, the Kremlin said. “Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation with South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa. The president of […]
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Tue 08 August 2023: South Africa recorded 207 child marriages in 2021, with 188 kids taken as brides. This was revealed on Monday by Statistics South Africa to the African Union Special Rapporteur, who is currently in the country to monitor and evaluate progress on how South Africa is performing in its campaign to end child […]
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Tue 08 August 2023: Poland’s defence ministry has agreed to send additional troops to the Belarus border following a request from the border guard service, state-run news agency PAP reported. Warsaw has been on high alert recently as Russian Wagner mercenary troops arrived in Belarus for training. On Monday, the border guard service asked the […]
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Tue 08 August 2023: An Indian court has asked whether days of demolitions of homes and businesses of mainly Muslim residents in the northern state of Haryana were “an exercise of ethnic cleansing”. Ordering a halt to four days of bulldozing of properties in the state’s Nuh district, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on […]
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